This one is a cool real-time face-tracker application. It utilizes the FaceTracker API by Jason Saragih and is build upon the openFrameworks-implementation of it (ofxFaceTracker). Than “simply” the mesh of the real-time recorded face is matched in the face-mesh of a celebrity and blended over the real-time picture. Cool stuff to build upon. The openFrameworks source-code is available! Credits for making this go to Kevin Atkinson and Arturo Castro.
Dear all. Digital Tools wishes you a happy new year 2012!! I got lately a little bit slower and lazy with blogging, due to much, much work here. Nevertheless within the last few weeks I made some videos under my moniker scnclr, that I want to share.
The series scnclrBleep is based upon a YouTube-video account. It’s about own visual explorations, uploaded to creative commons music, unasked. Enjoy the latest four episodes!
PS: Thanks go to the especially cool guys at Broque and Renzu. Great music!
The Phlow-Magazine, that featured over 3 years daily reviews about free Creative Commons music, is back in 2012 with a nice package for all lovers of the internet-spirit. In 2012 Phlow will present a creative commons music highlight every single day. The music is curated by experts of the netmusic, namely Applejux, Brigitte Bijoux, Roland, Sven Swift, Mango Aioli, Christian Grasse and Moritz »mo.« Sauer.
The first door will open in just some hours! To stay in touch, visit the 366 Days of Music page and connect via iTunes podcast or RSS-Feed.
Sphero is a new gadget that has the potential to come massive in 2012. It is a remote-controller “self-rolling ball”. It can be remote controlled via smartphone or it can roll pre-programmed figured. Sphero can light in different colors. Even games are applied to this robotic ball: the demo-site already shows one smartphone-driven golf-game. The feature “Sphero-Cam” points into the direction of mixed reality apps where you can control and observe the robot-ball, while taking pictures at the same time. (via Neogolf)
The app ZX Plectrum is a simple digital-noise-generator instrument with just a limited functionality. In a retro Spectrum-ZX-style tones and visual bar-gliches are made, if the user touches the iPad-screen. It’s really just that. Not a very interesting app – I thought at first. But the longer I think about this app, the better I like the idea. It’s just about this – a really simple app, to turn the iPad into a more or less useless noise generator with just a single function. Reduced to the limit of usefulness.
The ZX Plectrum is made by Dave Sapien and his website revels just another interesting app: Paint Sapien. Also a more or less simple app. With this drawing tool the user can “wet-paint” with colors, brushes and simple filters. The interesting detail is, that the iPad2-camera enables some sort of “pressure-sensitive” drawing on the iPad, like tablets do.
Both are simple and interesting works. I wonder what Dave Sapien will come up next with.
(ZX Plectrum app via wire to the ear)
The German games-magazine “GEE” has shifted towards the iPad several months ago and regularly releases the “GEE Display” in the iPad Newsstand. GEE is known for its well-rounded games journalism, that does not only look on gaming-reviews, but also on the cultural side of gaming with aspects touching art, technology, society and politics.
Gee Display takes this approach onto the iPad and they made a good looking, relaxed and good to read iPad magazine. It features game-reviews, insight-reports, interviews and columns about art, music, gadgets and more. All articles are rounded up with high-resolution pictures, slideshows and/or videos, that play directly from the article.
Since the issue #4 Gee Display (App Store Link) is available in German and English as well. If you like a good gaming reading experience, you should take a look on this. The thing I like about reading “iPad Magazines” it, that it has a silent look and feel that is apart from the noise of the online-reading world. There are no bouncing ad-banners, to annoying click-me-here-or-there widget stuff. It’s just about the content and browsing.
Poly is an experimental drawing app for the iPad, made by the Innoiz Inc. interaction design team. With Poly you can “overdraw” existing images from your library or the camera using a Triangulation-method. Each generated triangle derives its colors from the pictures, that lies below the triangle-pattern. With that app you can quickly generate pictures and patters, that remind on cubism-paintings and abstract portrait-skechtes. People who are into experimental sketch-apps, should definitely take a deeper look at Poly.
